What you fail to analyze is why MS got that way. They got there because they dropped the ball on IE post XP. When MS stretched violently with IE 6 back then, t

What you fail to analyze is why MS got that way. They got there because they dropped the ball on IE post XP. When MS stretched violently with IE 6 back then, they changed the web landscape forever, they were light years ahead of competition. The practically invented AJAX. If MS can do with Edge what they did with IE 6, the future is very bright. Since IE 6, most changes in web technology has been incremental. The powerful changes like WebGL are not enough mainstream. MS was, and still is, in power of forwarding things fast. So when you look at it like that, this is all good news.